Sodium bicarbonate manufacturing · Colorado

American Soda (Solvay Chemicals) Parachute Sodium Bicarbonate Facility

Parachute, CO · ~38 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

American Soda (Solvay Chemicals) Parachute Sodium Bicarbonate Facility runs at 134% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Sodium bicarbonate manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

American Soda (Solvay Chemicals) Parachute Sodium Bicarbonate Facility: 4.4 TCR = 134% of Sodium bicarbonate manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

American Soda (Solvay Chemicals) Parachute Sodium Bicarbonate Facility safety composite

American Soda (Solvay Chemicals) Parachute Sodium Bicarbonate Facility scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 9%), blended into one 0-100 breakdown against same-industry peers. A missing measure drops out and redistributes its weight rather than deflating the score. This is a per-dimension breakdown, distinct from the single letter grade above it (which weights TCR alone against the BLS industry benchmark).

F

23/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.43 per 100 workers

Safer than 18% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.31 per 100 workers

Safer than 9% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% of industry peers

Benchmarked live against every credibly-rated employer in the same NAICS industry code in the current OSHA extract (a segment must have at least 8 rated peers to benchmark). Not a legal or compliance determination; PlainSafetyScore's own weighting (TCR 40%, DART 35%, fatalities 25%).

American Soda (Solvay Chemicals) Parachute Sodium Bicarbonate Facility held a steady TCR band

American Soda (Solvay Chemicals) Parachute Sodium Bicarbonate Facility's TCR held near 0.3 from 5.6 in 2022 to 5.3 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 5.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.2× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=5.6 · 2023=2.4 · 2024=5.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325180 · Parachute, CO ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.4 · 134% of ind

  • DART 5.3 DART
  • RANK #2/4
  • PHOTO BLEACHTECH LLC
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~38 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: BLEACHTECH LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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American Soda (Solvay Chemicals) Parachute Sodium Bicarbonate Facility in the TCR neighbourhood

Average Total Case Rate among this establishment and nearest same-industry peers

TCR

What this shows American Soda (Solvay Chemicals) Parachute Sodium Bicarbonate Facility averages 4.4 TCR (134% of the Sodium bicarbonate manufacturing BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-08-25

American Soda (Solvay Chemicals) Parachute Sodium Bicarbonate Facility TCR series: 2022=5.6 · 2023=2.4 · 2024=5.3 · BLS 3.3

Where American Soda (Solvay Chemicals) Parachute Sodium Bicarbonate Facility falls in its industry

418 Sodium bicarbonate manufacturi establishments

Safer than 18% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Colorado alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 4 Sodium bicarbonate manufacturi employers in Colorado.

American Soda (Solvay Chemicals) Parachute Sodium Bicarbonate Facility (38 employees, TCR 4.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 1.9 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 30 entities by Average employees (X) and Total Case Rate (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. Larger & higher-riskSmaller & higher-riskLarger & saferSmaller & safer than peers 0100200300400500 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate American Soda (Solvay Chemicals) Parachute Sodium Bicarbonate Facility
American Soda (Solvay Chemicals) Parachute Sodium Bicarbonate Facility (38 employees, TCR 4.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 1.9

American Soda (Solvay Chemicals) Parachute Sodium Bicarbonate Facility has fewer employees than the Sodium bicarbonate manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.9. Workforce size and injury rate do not always move together within the same industry -- some of its smaller peers run higher rates than its larger ones, and vice versa.

Year-by-Year Safety Data

Year TCR DART Injuries Illnesses Fatalities
2024 5.3 5.3 2 0 0
2023 2.4 0.0 1 0 0
2022 5.6 5.6 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325180 · CO · Parachute

418 Sodium bicarbonate manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 9,007 rated employers in Colorado with headcount on file · 4 employers in Parachute, CO · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR BLEACHTECH LLC 4.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Tessenderlo Kerley Hanford, CA 4.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Intematix Corporation 4.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Evonik Corporation 4.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE COLORADO PRODUCTION FARMING 38 FTE
STATE-SIZE Nathan Naill, LLC 38 FTE
STATE-SIZE Morgan County Rural Electric Association 38 FTE
STATE-SIZE Thrive Home Builders Corporate Office 38 FTE
CITY-NEAR Parachute Office 71 FTE
CITY-NEAR TLC PIPELINE CONSTRUCTION 46 FTE
CITY-NEAR 26890 STORE 26890 26 FTE
NAT-TCR Ozark Fire Sprinkler Co Inc 4.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Murray Equipment, Inc 4.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Arrow-Crete Construction, LLC 4.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Princeton 4.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Clinton 38 FTE
NAT-SIZE D&D Garage Doors of Fort Myers, Inc. 38 FTE
NAT-SIZE Zephyr Aluminum, LLC - Lancaster 38 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hillsboro Preprint Facility 38 FTE

Rel codes: NAICS-TCR · STATE-SIZE · CITY-NEAR · NAT-TCR/NAT-SIZE cross-state. Read with this employer →

Data Source: OSHA Injury Tracking Application (ITA), mandatory establishment-level injury/illness reports. Grades compare employer Total Case Rate (TCR) to BLS IIF industry benchmarks. Data covers years reported by this establishment: 2024, 2023, 2022. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.